Naomi Shihab Nye, Selected by, Naomi Shihab Nye, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-689-82087-8
English translations appear alongside the Spanish poems and tales that explore everything from a table set for supper to a peach tree to a legend of rabbit's long ears. The selections include writings by Rosario Castellanos, Jose Juan Tablada,...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Naomi Shihab Nye.. Greenwillow, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-269184-2
"People do not pass away./ They die/ and then they stay," declares Nye's brief poem "Voices in the Air," the titular work in her collection of 95 poems. The meaning of the collection's subtitle is twofold: the poems are moving when read aloud, but...
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Two new small-press titles rescue under- or unpublished work from well-known poets. Written over a decade ago but withheld from publication, Burkard's ninth book of poems is his second to arrive this year, his Unsleeping
(Forecasts, Dec. 18,...
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Naomi Shihab Nye. Greenwillow, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-201972-1
Aref Al-Amri doesn’t want to accompany his professor parents on their three-year stint to Ann Arbor, Mich., so he spends his last days in Oman thinking of reasons not to go. Nye (There Is No Difference Now) writes in lyrical prose from a close third-
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author BOA Editions $20 (90p) ISBN 978-1-880238-14-1
Here Nye's (Yellow Glove) poems travel from American attics to the rutted roads of Palestine. Most focus on details of daily life; throughout, the narrator maintains an obsession with letters, the only object able to journey safely between discrete...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (142p) ISBN 978-0-06-009765-3
Poetic Expressions Beginning with a work inspired by the events of September 11, Naomi Shihab Nye brings together 60 of her poems in 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East including ""Different Ways to Pray,"" ""The Palestinians Have...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author BOA Editions $17 (65p) ISBN 978-1-880238-63-9
""What will be forgotten/ falls over me/ like the sky/ over our whole neighborhood,"" writes Nye in her sixth full-length collection, lamenting the memories that will disappear with departing Texas neighbors. Nye, who is also a noted YA novelist and
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author . Greenwillow $16.99 (236p) ISBN 978-0-06-189637-8
Nye (Honeybee
) presents an anthology of poets under the age of 25, each of whom contribute four poems. The poets chiefly employ free verse and utilize intensely personal material, but these are their sole similarities. The poems cover territory...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author . Greenwillow $15.99 (242p) ISBN 978-0-06-085392-1
Nye brings a keen curiosity and a poet's sensibility to this smooth, anecdotal collection that amplifies the notion that the journey itself is the destination. The most memorable characters are taxi drivers, such as the Syracuse, N.Y., cabbie...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author . Boa $22.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-929918-69-0
Redemptive moments and struggling households from south Texas to the Middle East dominate the ample, likable latest collection from the prolific Nye (The Space Between Our Footsteps
; Fuel
, etc.), whose Palestinian-American heritage forms part of...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author Naomi Shihab Nye . HarperTempest $6.99 (142p) ISBN 978-0-06-050404-5
Many of the poems, which focus on the Middle East and the Arab-American experience, have appeared in previous collections; others are published here for the first time. PW
called this "an excellent way to invite exploration and discussion of...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $15.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-029366-6
Readers who cherish historic buildings and traditions will feel a strong kinship to the highly motivated Texas teen at the center of Nye's (Habibi
) novel, who wants her distaste for large franchise establishments known. On her 16th birthday,...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Virginia Duncan, Editor, Vivienne Flesher, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80521-9
This uneven picture book, essentially a bedtime poem, begins in a child's cozy room at night and ends with a child's dream journey on a moon rowboat. The text is based on a lullaby Nye (Sitti's Secrets) sings in schools (the music appears on the...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter. HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-15948-1
Capturing a stroller-bound toddler's delight in moving "Out! Out!/ Into the wind/ on wheels," Carpenter's (Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books) loose-line watercolor-and-ink illustrations are the high point of this playfully...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Raul Colon, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-80149-5
This soul-stirring novel about the Abbouds, an Arab American family, puts faces and names to the victims of violence and persecution in Jerusalem today. Believing the unstable situation in that conflict-ridden city has improved, 14-year-old Liyana's
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Dan Yaccarino, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-15946-7
Nye (editor of Salting the Ocean) challenges readers with a range of her own poems, linked thematically as an investigation of journeys to inner spaces as well as literal journeys to real and imagined places. In ""Mad,"" a girl flies to the moon to...
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Terre Maher, Illustrator , illus. by Terre Maher. HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (118p) ISBN 978-0-06-058189-3
Nye's (Going Going
, reviewed above) sprawling collection of more than 70 poems run the gamut from capturing a moment to probing more abstract ideas—and many seem right for a wider audience than just females. The best poems take a detailed
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Naomi Shihab Nye, Author, Yu Cha Pak, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-768467-4
When his grandmother confides that she hasn't dreamed in a long time, a concerned Benito proceeds to ask ""everyone he knew"" where dreams come from. The responses are varied and fanciful, but Benito has his own solution: ""dreams really came from...
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Naomi Shihab Nye. Greenwillow, $19.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-269187-3
Nye (The Turtle of Michigan) centers themes of family and examines the life of her late mother in 100 never-before-published poems. Using eloquent and raw verse, the author describes how her white Lutheran-raised mother meet her Palestinian father (“
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